My tweets

• Sat, 15:09: Brunch was lovely, but we were sitting next to a table filled with privileged travellers who clearly only see Hawaii as their playground.
• Sat, 15:09: The kind of folks who stop in the middle of any road, at any time, to put the top down on their convertible.
• Sat, 15:11: Instead of being the kind of travellers who, you know, realize that they are guests in somebody's home.
• Sat, 15:13: I remember when I first moved to WA State and people would learn I was from Hawaii. SO MANY folks bragged to be about their vacations.
• Sat, 15:14: How they would park in people's yards and not pick up after themselves after a beach picnic because hey, they paid hospitality taxes right!
• Sat, 15:15: And I'd be like, why are you telling me this? Why are you going out of your way to tell me that you are a giant fuckhead?
• Sat, 15:18: There is a poverty and housing crisis going on in Hawaii, impacting the "poors" who were displaced for yet another resort. But hey.
• Sat, 15:22: RT @sallysimpleton: @runningnekkid some just see the world as their toilet, sadly. You just have to judge them for what they are: not worth…
• Sat, 15:24: In less infuriating news, we braved the store after brunch and came away with groceries to last through Christmas and all Iliana's presents.
• Sat, 15:26: In one fricking go, Christmas is taken care of. BOOM. Although if anyone wants to buy Iliana LEGOs for 3 year olds, that would be swell. ;)

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Growing Pains

I have to do this work. Nobody else can do it for me. Nobody else can say my words in the way I feel they need to be said.

I know that seems like another completely obvious realization. But there's the realization that you need to be somewhere, and then there are all the steps you need to take in order to make that happen. Steps like finding the friends who will help my tender heart find laughter in the face of my first stinging rejection. Looking for typos fifteen more times than I'd really like. (That one will be the death of me, I know it.) Finding my center so someone else's criticism can be left at their door when that is appropriate, and knowing when to open my door to let in critique no matter how painful it might seem.

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